{"id":233786,"date":"2025-10-23T00:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233786\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:57:18","slug":"v8-supercars-hall-of-fame-member-garry-rogers-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233786\/","title":{"rendered":"V8 Supercars Hall of Fame member Garry Rogers dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGarry Rogers<\/p>\n

Known for his quirky character and humour, Rogers\u2019 involvement in the sport stretched over 60 years and included periods as a driver, team owner and series administrator.<\/p>\n

Rogers raced Sports Sedan across the 1960s and 70s before moving into touring cars and made a total of 14 Bathurst 1000 starts as a driver between 1978 and 1993.<\/p>\n

Rogers\u2019 biggest impact on the sport came as a team owner, which included running his eponymous squad in the ATCC\/Supercars Championship from 1996-2019.<\/p>\n

Garry Rogers Motorsport won the Bathurst 1000 in 2000 with Garth Tander and Jason Bargwanna \u2013 two of many youngsters to get their big career break with Rogers.<\/p>\n

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GRM won the Great Race in 2000.<\/p>\n

Others included Steven Richards, Lee Holdsworth and Scott McLaughlin, who spearheaded GRM\u2019s period as the Volvo factory team in Supercars from 2014-16.<\/p>\n

Jamie Whincup too had his first Supercars season with Rogers, albeit he was sacked after a difficult rookie campaign in 2003.<\/p>\n

GRM also competed in other classes alongside its early Supercars efforts, most famously running Holden\u2019s Bathurst 24 Hour-winning Monaro project across 2002-03.<\/p>\n

The team left Supercars at the end of 2019 and focused its efforts on Australian Racing Group categories, which Rogers co-owned for a period.<\/p>\n

Rogers handed day-to-day control of GRM to son Barry in recent years and the team currently fields cars in the Trans Am and TCR Australia Series.<\/p>\n

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Garry Rogers with son Barry, who now runs GRM. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

GRM has released a statement paying tribute to the team\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we\u2019re mourning the passing of our founder and leader Garry Rogers. But more than that we\u2019re celebrating his incredible life,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis mantra was always to press on and get on with things, and that\u2019s exactly what we will be doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarry was an amazing man with a deep love for his family, his horses and his motorsport.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe lived a fast life, but always had time for his family, his kids and his grandchildren. He put others first and was generous with his time and in so many other ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarry was a strong supporter of the Fred Hollows Foundation \u2013 if you\u2019d like to donate in memory of Garry, we\u2019d be so very appreciative.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur thoughts are with Garry\u2019s family, his wife Kaye, son Barry and daughters Michelle and Krissie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018A titan of the industry\u2019: Tributes flow following death of Garry Rogers<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garry Rogers Known for his quirky character and humour, Rogers\u2019 involvement in the sport stretched over 60 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,12357,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-233786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-slot1","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}